Monday Morning

I am sitting here with TWO eyes with new lenses! The world is sure an interesting place when you can see it all - well, I can't read the fine print yet which is a pain but you can't have it all, can you??? Reading glasses later .  .  .  .  but for right now, holy crap! I can see the cobweb in the darkest corner & the dustbunnies under the shelf. My house is disgusting! I think I preferred it when I couldn't SEE it. Not like I can do a whole lot about it in the best of times since I'm not supposed to bend over to clean or push the vacuum back & forth. No matter what the doctors say, you have to do some cleaning & mopping!! 

I have my depth perception back!!  And everything looks bigger with both eyes fixed too. The second eye is a little touchier than the first - it's dry & a little itchy & reacts to the medication more. I haven't really decided if it's the surgery or a reaction to all the cottonwood floating in the air right now. I know I'm having allergy problems with all the sneezing, wheezing & itching .  .  .  .  

My best pal little Ron came by on Tuesday, last week & cleaned the bottom of my fridge out for me. He tossed it all - well, except for the bottles of wine! I can't even bend in to reach into the bottom. I need a fridge a little shallower but two feet higher off the ground, like a side by side with a big shelf or box underneath so I could access all of it. Then I might be able to clean it on my own. The world needs to let handicapped people design living spaces! It's one of my bug bears since I became a gimp. It's so much cheaper to live independently but little is designed to assist in that life. Take the humble toilet, for instance, it's too low for anyone with balance problems or wobbly legs but if you add aftermarket bars or lifts, you can't reach to clean yourself properly. Sinks are too low too. Bath tubs are too high. Things in high cabinets or low ones become inaccessible. I can put my slow cooker away in the cupboard above the stove easily but I can't get it down by myself. I have to leave most things out so I can see them & reach them but it makes the place look like a big mess. I'd like a counter top that runs all the way around my house with a nice shelf above it & drawers beneath it so I can find all the things I use every day. A Murphy bed that folds away at the touch of a button too. Who really needs a bed taking up space when you're not in it?? 

Got my chair & old Indian spinner outside on the porch - I finally started to wind off the last of the Sheep Shed roving I spun up over 2 years ago! I love the giant bobbin most of the time but it's a real pain in the ass to wind all the yarn off once it's full. But I have some old dark grey roving I want to finish spinning too. When I say old, I think I bought it way back when I first rented my basement suite, about 22 years ago .   .   .   I wanted to knit a sheep afghan & needed some dark grey for the border. It's quite dry & even with spinning oil on it, it sheds tiny bits into the air which make me wheeze. Spinning outside is the only way I can work with it until it's spun up. Why didn't I just toss it into the compost? It makes the most beautiful yarn in a soft bluey-grey color once it's spun, washed & conditioned. 

Right now I can spin or knit with large needles or crochet with a large hook. Fine stitches sort of blur away so I can't work on socks or the gloves I wanted to make. I can't see close enough to pluck an eyebrow but I can see all the makeup mistakes people on tv make. Hopefully, I'll be able to get some reading glasses in another month or so .   .   .   .   in the meantime, I can spin or knit up the purple Marble yarn into a light summer cardi for me. I believe it calls for a size 5mm circular needle.